Image: flood in the Chiswick Mall; Frank Noon
The flood specialist Lizzy Bunker says
The flood specialist Lizzy Bunker will give a lecture on Tuesday, March 25, on the Chiswick Pier Trust with the title “Prepared for a Flood”. She told the Chiswick calendar about the innovative project, on which her organization Community Bluescapes works to alleviate the floods from Thames in Barnes, and why we should all think about what we can do to protect our houses and others from flooding.
Anyone who lives near the river in Chiswick is aware of how much it is very suitable – the water level changes up to seven meters in just six hours (24 feet). The tides are higher in spring and autumn, and both the tow path in the beach on the green and the street in the Chiswick Mall regularly flood.
We rely on the Thames to prevent the sheet from getting further in the country, and we are all attentive to keep an eye on what happens in terms of climate change and our flood defense.
Since we had the protection of the barrier, we built in areas that used to be undeveloped to absorb floods. In the past 50 to 60 years we have rely too much on walls and barriers, she says, and now it is time for us to think about how we can work with nature to protect ourselves.
“We have to create space for water and not just hold back,” Lizzy told the Chiswick calendar.
Anyone who has dealt with developers who want to build on the Thames Thames knows how determined to convince us that it is safe and reasonable to build on the river, but she says we have to increase the permeability of land on the river, not specifically and not specifically to channel the water elsewhere.
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Image: The new meander in Barnes Green – an artistic impression of the artist Katie James
Change the course of the Beverley Brook in Barnes
Lizzy has a BSC in geography and a master in environmental policy and management. After working for the environmental agency for the measurement of river rivers and levels, and as a consultant for flood risks for several London councilors as a program manager for community bluescapes, a partnership between London Borough of Richmond on Thames, Barnes Common Limited and WW, which takes care of London Wetland Center.
The project she heads is Beverley Brook's catchment area in Richmond, one of 25 programs throughout England, in which environmentalists have received money to find creative ways to manage flood risks.
Pictures: Artistic impressions of the Barnes Green Restization by the artist Katie James
In July 2021, severe floods affected the life of residents and wild animals in Barnes, and climate change will probably be a more common problem in the near future. While Lizzy has no illusion that you can stop all floods, “we can help to alleviate its effects,” she told us.
“The Beverley Brook cannot be released into the Thames when the flood is high. The Victorians have made it more straight so that it flows directly into the Thames and with high flood it withdraws. We let the existing channel change there, but the flow dynamics.
As part of the innovation programs managed by the environmental agency, which were managed by the environmental agency, they were awarded £ 6 million pounds for food and rural affairs of £ by the Beverley Brook project.
Image: flood in the Chiswick Mall; Frank Noon
Changes homeowners can lead to their property to alleviate floods
We should think about changes in our characteristics, avoid or alleviate floods, Lizzy told me whether we live on the river or not.
First of all, we should know what our flood risk is. There is a practical state website on which you can record your postcode to find out: Check your long -term risk of flood
We should make ourselves more permeable in our houses where we can. Astroturf kills, even if it is technically permeable, kills the natural plant life underneath so that the soil is not broken up by roots and water cannot be absorbed so easily. Concreting over the front gardens makes it easier to make surface water, either to drive into your own property or to that of another.
“Even if you are not directly at risk, what you do has an impact on another person.”
Pictures: door defense against flood from Flood Mary's website
Hydics are good for the storage of water. “But only if you empty and use them,” she says.
“Bigger things like green roofs, blue roofs and influences are brilliant.”
Sustainable drainage systems, which are referred to by architects and builders, offer techniques to manage surface water outflows. Since heavy downpours are becoming increasingly common, they become more important for homeowners.
Championship champion of the real estate flood-resilience Mary Long-Dhonau Oben-also known as 'Flood Mary' has put together a comprehensive guide for adjustments at home that help to keep water out or to enable homeowners to recover more easily.
Outdoor floodtaes, air burner covers, flood doors, pumps, flood bags, attraction socks, boiler and service meter higher in the walls, with laminated flooring, ceramic tiles or oaks such as oaks that hire more rise to flood water than flooding, instead of minimizing the effects of flood water.
Your very readable and well -illustrated guide is here on your website: floodmary.com
Lizzy will talk about these practical possibilities, on which we are more prepared for floods and describe the project of Community Bluescapes at Barnes Green and on Tuesday, March 25, at 7 p.m., can give a picture of Chiswick's risk of flood in the Chiswick Pier House.
Cards here: chiswickpier.org.uk
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